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P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, stalking, journalism, police corruption, undercover, media, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, violent content, police, journalist, cocaine, architect, corruption, death of son, newspaper editor, drug, graphic violence, young, crime, crimes, drugs
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about law enforcement, dishonesty, deadly, danger, police, police corruption and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like P.I. Private Investigations: Crash and Burn (2008), Caught in the Crossfire (2010), American Crime (2004), Officer Down (2005), Cisco Pike (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
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Place:
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Cisco is an ex-rock star who has become a drug dealer. A corrupt cop blackmails Cisco to sell marijuana for him. Cisco has one weekend to sell it to his friends.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, police corruption, tough law enforcer, drug dealing, law enforcement, dishonesty, drug abuse, false accusation, addiction, partner, drug, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
los angeles, venice beach california
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, woman with a gun, assassination, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, investigation, police corruption, murder, battle zone, gangster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
private investigator, woman in danger, life is a bitch, gangster, murder, who done it, danger, private detective, investigation, law enforcement, nordic, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prostitute, serial killer, investigation, murder, danger, urban ghetto, law enforcement, dishonesty, working undercover, city life, erotica, female police officer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, gangster, tough heroes, law enforcement, betrayal, danger, confined, dishonesty, woman in danger, gambling, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, nevada
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of young tourist couples comes across a drug deal gone bad while on vacation.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime thriller, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, law enforcement, hitman, police investigation, drug dealing, criminal's revenge, violent content, gang, woman with a gun, drug deal, drug, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
Style:
independent film, exciting, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, gangster, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, south america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
52%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
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Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
52%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, neo noir
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles police detectives, cynical veteran Malloy and cocky rookie Dietz, hunt for a serial killer, an ex-cop named Taylor, whom randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Style:
psychological, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, vengeance, woman strangled to death, maniac, murder, violence, partners against crime, mentally unstable, stalking, chases and races ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, future
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a series of murders in motel rooms are connected, a cop, Dickson, heads out on the trail to find a serial killer. He discovers that he signs the motel guest-books with the names of boxers, and hence gets a lead on him. However, when he just ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.
Style:
psychological, rough, tense, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, serial killer, vengeance, police investigation, life is a bitch, police corruption, uncover truth, wrestler, violence spree, urban, memory loss, city life ...
Place:
south america, california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
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498
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
missing child, drug dealing, rescue, hostage, parents and children, child in peril, confined, manipulation, danger, doctors and patients, unlikely criminals, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles
Style:
neo noir, erotic, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
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519
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, mind game, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, police investigation, master criminal, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, law enforcement, confined, survival ...
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971
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Michael Madsen stars as Max Walker, a down-and-out cop who becomes the target of a bloodthirsty drug cartel after he leads a narcotics bust to intercept a large shipment of heroin. When someone starts picking off his team members -- and the drugs ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, partner, police investigation, crime gone awry, dishonesty, undercover, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, partners against crime, drug dealing, working undercover, police officer killed ...
Similarity:
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186
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
rescue, special agent, danger, intrigue, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, kidnapping, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
mental illness, investigation, crime gone awry, disorder, dishonesty, law enforcement, confined, murder, heist, robbery, hostage, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, criminal's revenge, gangster, hitman, murder, fighting crime, police investigation, witnessing a crime, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, england
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